
The judge of the Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg Kristina stubbornly arrested for two months video blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, activist Elena Korelevareports from the courtroom. A criminal case has been instituted against him for publishing a video about the game in Pokemon Go in one of the temples of the city.
"They brought Ruslan, as a terrible terrorist, from the door to the door. Only journalists were allowed into the court of the court," Kableva wrote. Later, the corridor was allowed to enter the rest who came to the hearing. No one was allowed into the courtroom, including media representatives.
“Near the trial, the Ruslan support group, religious people are not observed,” Kableva said. During a meeting in the corridor of the court, Pokemon was caught. The bailiffs did not react to this.
On Saturday, the Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg and Verkhotursky Kirill said that he was ready to ask law enforcement agencies to let Sokolovsky to bail. “I instructed to figure out what is now the legal opportunity to influence the fate of this person,” said the Metropolitan. “We do not crave blood, it is simply important for us that such actions do not spread further.” According to Cyril, the Russian Orthodox Church "is ready to extend his hand" to the arrested blogger if he is ready to accept such assistance. “If he says that he wants to suffer for his beliefs further, it will be his choice. If he is free, we would only want him to remove those fragments of the videos where God and the Mother of God are insulted. He can insult me or someone else, but not God and the Mother of God,” Metropolitan emphasized.
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On Friday, it became known that a criminal case was instituted against Sokolovsky under part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (arousal of hatred or hostility, humiliation of the dignity of a person or group of people according to the attitude to religion, up to five years in prison) and part 2 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code (insulting the feelings of believers specially intended for worship, other religious rites and ceremonies, up to three years of deprivation of liberty). The video blogger was detained.
Sokolovsky published a video on August 11. Since that time, more than 485 thousand people watched it. The blogger emphasized that he was going to play in the temple in protest against obscurantism. "For me, this is complete nonsense. Who can insult that you were like a smartphone in the church?" - said Sokolovsky.
In addition, on August 18, Sokolovsky published a video "An ideal Orthodox marriage?" In it, the blogger parodied the recommendations of the Russian Orthodox Church Orthodox about family life.
The editors of URA.RU, in which articles on posts of a blogger were published, applied to law enforcement agencies with a proposal to evaluate Sokolovsky’s actions and said that her denunciation was registered.
On August 19, it became known that the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Sverdlovsk region conducts an audit against Sokolovsky. "The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the monitoring found this video and transferred it with a resolution of the leadership of the head of the Center for Combating the Extremism for conducting an appropriate audit. Materials are also sent to civilian experts who will help to determine whether the composition of Article 148 of the Criminal Code is contained (violation of the right to freedom of conscience and religion)," said the head of the press service of the regional head of the head Valery Gorelykh.
"If someone asked me personally, not as a policeman and spokeswoman for the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Sverdlovsk region, but as a citizen, I would answer that it was not three years, as indicated in the law, it was necessary to send such pokemonists to the prison bunks, but at least five, or even more, so that it would not be unhappy in the holy places, - said the waist -in -law. - only the spinning stoves in Moscow already in Moscow. Smushed away.
On Friday in Moscow, a group of Christians spent the next, third in a row, a picket against obscurantism and persecution of the “enemies of the Church”.
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